2019 Spanish regional elections
Regional elections were held in Spain during 2019 to elect the regional parliaments of thirteen of the seventeen autonomous communities: Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile and León, Castilla–La Mancha, Extremadura, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and the Valencian Community; and the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. 814 of 1,208 seats in the regional parliaments were up for election, as well as the 50 seats in the regional assemblies of the autonomous cities. The elections were held on 26 May for most regions and on 28 April in the Valencian Community.
Election date
Determination of election day varied depending on the autonomous community. Typically, most autonomous communities held their elections on the fourth Sunday of May every four years, concurrently with nationwide local elections, while others had their own, separate electoral cycles. In some cases, regional presidents had the prerogative to dissolve parliament and call for extra elections at a different time, but newly elected assemblies were restricted to serving out what remained of their previous four year-terms without altering the period to their next ordinary election. In other cases—Andalusia, Aragon, the Balearic Islands, the Basque Country, the Canary Islands, Castile and León, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, Navarre and the Valencian Community —the law granted regional presidents the power to call snap elections resulting in fresh four-year parliamentary terms.By the time of the 2019 regional elections, this prerogative had been exercised by the Valencian Community by holding a snap regional election on 28 April 2019, but the region's electoral cycle was brought back to May in 2023, concurrently with most other regions.